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Moscow Entrepreneurs
Seize Golden Opportunity

By

Julia Vitullo-Martin

Updated Jan. 20, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

Two years ago Jake Weinstock was a daring 23 year old, seeking his fortune in Russia's wide-open economy. Fresh out of the University of Pennsylvania, the young American worked full-time as a business consultant for Ernst & Young and moonlighted as marketing manager of Dynamo, the old Red Army hockey team that is now a Pittsburgh Penguins farm team. After 18-hour days, he and his expatriate friends would play pickup basketball games and dream big dreams.